I haven't really thought how I will tell this story. One morning I woke up and decided I would do a blog about my Dad and this disease that afflicts him.
I'm aware he's not alone as a victim. I know for certain I'm not alone as a suffering family member, I have 3 brothers and 2 sisters, that's just the tip of the whanau list, and they live back home. Together we've been watching this man slide from the Dad we knew to.....Dad with Alzheimers.
This Bible reading is Dad's favourite. He'd bring it up every time he had the chance.
When his Alzheimers was setting in, he'd bring it up a lot. The whanau used to have a bit of a chuckle, because he'd inevitably get it muddled. It's nice to be able to chuckle now and then.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;A time to kill, and a time to heal;A time to break down, and a time to build up;A time to weep, and a time to laugh;A time to mourn, and a time to dance;A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;A time to seek, and a time to lose;A time to keep, and a time to cast away;A time to rend, and a time to sew;A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;A time to love, and a time to hate;A time for war, and a time for peace.
What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
How does one describe this time that Dad and all the whanau are going through now?
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